Welcome to the Amigos School ITEAMS Club Wiki
developed by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, supported by the National Science Foundation

What is ITEAMS?

Can you guess what this object is? It was last seen near the Beehive Cluster on Feb. 12th at almost 11pm

Innovative

Technology-
Enabled

Astronomy for

Middle

Schools

A Monday After-School Astronomy Club
using curricula developed by the CFA
"From the Ground Up! Exploring the Universe with Online Telescopes"

I will be putting more information on this Wiki. This Wiki is for the club members to store and show how they have been exploring the universe with the CFA's online telescopes. Please click onto the "about us" button on the main MicroObservatory page for more complete information on the online telescopes.

Resources for Amigos-ITEAMS Astronomers

Dr. Bruce Ward & Dr.Frank Sienkiewicz

What We Will Be Doing!

Week 1/October 18, 2010:

Intros& Snacks
Pretest
Setting up WikiPages on the computers in the computer lab,
Access & bookmark the MicroObservatory website,
Use the "Guest portal"
Use "Observing with Nasa"

Week 2/October 25:

Exploration 1: Eye & Telescope "How Does My Eye Compare to the Telescope?"
Comparison One: Size of aperture compared to pupil
Comparison Two: Exposure Time, Does your eye have a "shutter speed"?
Comparison Three: Sharpness of Vision; How far away can you see a given object

Download and process images with MOImage software

Retrieve our Images from "Get Images" on the MicroObservatory Website .
Upload images saved today onto your AmigosITEAMS Wiki page
Select a target, and try out one of the on-line telescopes
Use "Guest Portal" and "Observing with NASA".
Record Images Taken

Week 3/November 1:

Review Exploration One "From the Ground Up"
Dumbbell Nebula
Complet Exploration Two "From the Ground Up"

Retrieving our Images from "Get Images" on the MicroObservatory Website .,
Downloading images
Saving, recording & naming image
Processing images with MOImage software
Join Wiki, taking a snapshot of FITS, storing pix in new WIKI folder on desktop
Upload images saved onto the Wiki

Week 4/November 8:

Prepare and Plan for Astronomy Night
Finish Projects/Signs

Week 5/November 15:

Debrief Astronomy Night
Fill out informal survey on what worked and what didn't along with changes for the future
Retrieve our Images from "Get Images" on the MicroObservatory Website .
Download and process images with MOImage software
Save on Amigos server file, record & name image
Upload images saved today onto your AmigosITEAMS Wiki page

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